Larry's
Independent Service has been specializing in the service and repair
of SUBARU automobiles for OVER 22 YEARS. We're your premier SUBARU
repair and maintenance option because we have exceptional service
You won't find another repair facility that will take better care
of
YOU and YOUR SUBARU.

SUBARU REPAIR

We
are committed to you with fast, quality preventative maintenance
service to help preserve the health of your SUBARU. You'll also
enjoy the efficiency of our professional staff who is devoted
to exceptional service, personal attention and respect for your
time.

We
are fully computerized and maintain all of your vehicle's history
in our network storage. If you ever happen to develop car
trouble while you are out of town and they try to sell you a "necessary
part", all you have to do is call us and we can tell you
whether the component had been either repaired or replaced previously.
And at the end of the year, if you need your records for tax purposes,
we'll gladly print you an itemized list of all the services and
repairs to help you speed up your tax return.

Our
waiting room is setup so that you can wait comfortably whenever
you might need a quick oil change, minor service or estimate.
Enjoy our Wi-Fi enabled waiting room or we can turn the TV on
for you!

WHAT
MAKES US DIFFERENT
FROM SUBARU
DEALERSHIP
SERVICE?

Personalized
Service
- To us you are not just another repair ticket. You are a CUSTOMER
in every sense of the word!

Owner
and/or Manager-
Always on the premises.

Free
Local Shuttle
- To your home or office.

Above
All-Empathy!
- We are very much aware of how unexpected repair bills can put
a dent in your budget. We will let you know the items that might
need immediate attention and the ones that can wait for a next
appointment.

We
don't want you to be a "One Time Customer"
- We want you to become a Customer and Friend for years to come.

Many
service facilities have forgotten what the word CUSTOMER
really means. We can assure you that we are fully aware of it's
meaning and you will always get personalized service in all your
vehicle's repairs and service needs.

Subaru
cars are known for the use of a boxer
engine layout in most vehicles above 1500 cc.
Most Subaru models have used the Symmetrical
All Wheel Drive drive-train layout since 1972. The
flat/boxer engine and all-wheel-drive became standard
equipment for mid-size and smaller cars in most international
markets by 1996, and is now standard in most North American
market Subaru vehicles. The lone exception is the BRZ,
introduced in 2012, which uses the boxer engine but instead
uses a rear-wheel-drive structure. Subaru also offers
turbocharged
versions of their passenger cars, such as the Impreza
WRX and the Legacy
2.5GT. The 2.5XT trims of the Outback
and Forester
also include a turbocharged engine.

In
Western markets, the Subaru brand has traditionally been
popular among a dedicated core of buyers. Marketing is
targeted towards a specific niche centered on those who
desire the company's signature drive train.

Subaru
is the Japanese name for the Pleiades
star cluster M45, or "The Seven Sisters" (one of whom
tradition says is invisible - hence only six stars in
the Subaru logo), which in turn inspires the logo and
alludes to the companies that merged to create FHI.

History

Former
logo on a Subaru
360 showing six stars in an arrangement
similar to the Pleiades
open star cluster

Fuji
Heavy Industries started out as The Aircraft
Research Laboratory in 1915, headed by Chikuhei
Nakajima. In 1932, the company was reorganized
as Nakajima
Aircraft Company, Ltd and soon became
a major manufacturer of aircraft
for Japan during World War II. At the end of the
Second World War Nakajima Aircraft was again reorganized,
this time as Fuji Sangyo Co, Ltd. In 1946,
the company created the Fuji
Rabbitmotor
scooter with spare aircraft parts from the
war.
In 1950, Fuji Sangyo was divided into 12 smaller
corporations according to the Japanese Government's
1950 Corporate Credit Rearrangement Act, anti-zaibatsu
legislation. Between 1953 and 1955, four of these
corporations and a newly formed corporation Fuji
Kogyo, a scooter manufacturer; coachbuildersFuji Jidosha; engine manufacturers Omiya
Fuji Kogyo; chassis
builders Utsunomiya Sharyo and the Tokyo
Fuji Dangyotrading
company[citation
needed] decided to merge
to form the Fuji Heavy Industries known
today.

Subaru
1500, a.k.a. the P-1

Kenji
Kita, CEO
of Fuji Heavy Industries at the time, wanted the
new company to be involved in car manufacturing
and soon began plans for building a car with the
development code-name P-1. Mr. Kita canvassed
the Company for suggestions about naming the P1,
but none of the proposals was appealing enough.
In the end he gave the car a Japanese name that
he had "been cherishing in his heart": Subaru,
which is the name of the Pleiades star cluster
in Japanese. The first Subaru car was named the
Subaru
1500.
Only twenty P1s were manufactured owing to multiple
supply issues. From 1954 to 2008 the company designed
and manufactured dozens of vehicles including
the 1500 (1954), the tiny air-cooled 360
(1958), the Sambar
(1961), the 1000
(which saw the introduction of the Subaru boxer
engine in 1965), the R-2
(1969), the Rex
and the Leone
(1971), the BRAT
(1978), Alcyone
(1985), the Legacy
(1989), the Impreza
(1993), the Forester
(1997), the Tribeca
(2005), the Exiga
(2008), and the BRZ
(2012).

1958
Subaru 360

Major
shareholders

Nissan
acquired a 20.4% stake in Fuji Heavy Industries,
Subaru's parent company, in 1968 during a period
of government-ordered merging of the Japanese
auto industry in order to improve competitiveness
under the administration of Prime
MinisterEisaku
Sato. Nissan would utilize FHI's bus manufacturing
capability and expertise for their Nissan
Diesel line of buses. In turn many Subaru
vehicles, even today, use parts from the Nissan
manufacturing keiretsu.
The Subaru automatic transmission, known as the
4EAT,
is also used in the first generation Nissan
Pathfinder.

Upon
Nissan's acquisition by Renault,
its stake in FHI was sold to General
Motors in 1999. Troy Clarke, of General Motors
served as representative to Fuji Heavy Industries
on their corporate board. During that time, the
Subaru Forester was sold as a Chevrolet Forester
in India
in exchange for the Opel
Zafira being sold as a Subaru
Traviq in Japan.
Also, the Chevrolet Borrego concept was presented
in 2002, a crossover coupe/pickup truck being
derived from the Japanese-market Legacy Turbo
platform. During the brief General Motors period,
a "badge
engineered" Impreza
was sold in the United States as the Saab
9-2X. An SUV (Subaru
Tribeca / Saab 9-6X) was also planned
but the Saab version did not proceed, and styling
was recycled in the 2008 Tribeca refresh.

GM
liquidated their holdings in FHI in 2005. Nearly
all Saab-Subaru joint projects were dropped at
that time, other than Subaru supplying parts for
the Saab 9-2x.
Toyota
Motors bought a little over 40% of GM's former
FHI stock, amounting to 8.7% of FHI. (The rest
of GM's shares went to a Fuji stock buy-back program.)
Toyota and Subaru have since collaborated on a
number of projects, among them building the Toyota
Camry in Subaru's Indiana U.S. plant beginning
in April 2007.
Toyota increased their share of FHI to 16.5% in
July of 2008.
Subsequently, Toyota and Subaru jointly developed
the Toyota
86, first sold in January 2012 as the Subaru
BRZ and by Toyota under various names.

Subaru
in the United States

Subaru
of America was established in 1968 in Philadelphia
by Malcolm
Bricklin and Harvey Lamm. It relocated to
Pennsauken,
New Jersey shortly thereafter and moved to
its current headquarters in Cherry
Hill, New Jersey when Fuji Heavy Industries
acquired full ownership. Subaru of America operates
Regional offices, Zone offices and Parts Distribution
Centers throughout the United States. Subaru of
America also operates Port Facilities on both
the West and East coasts.

Subaru
in Canada

In
1976, Canadians got their first exposure to Subaru
vehicles when Subaru Auto Canada Limited (SACL)
began offering the Subaru
Leone. In 1989, the privately owned SACL was
purchased by the Toronto-based Subaru Canada,
Inc. who, under the guidance of parent company
Fuji
Heavy Industries, began an expansion process
that would eventually see over 100 Subaru Dealers
in operation across the country.

Subaru
Canada, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fuji
Heavy Industries of Japan. Headquartered in
Mississauga,
Ontario, the company markets and distributes
Subaru vehicles, parts and accessories through
a network of 88 authorized dealers throughout
Canada.

Subaru
in the Philippines

Subaru
has entered the Philippine
operations started in 1996 under the Columbian
Motors Philippines ownership but withdrew in 2000.
It returned in 2006 under a new ownership by Motor
Image Pilipinas, Inc.
The Impreza has become a popular hatchback as
an alternative to the Mazda
3. The Subaru Forester gained quick popularity
in the country due to its relatively low price,
even providing a harder competition to the extremely
popular Honda CR-V and Toyota Rav 4. The Subaru
Legacy and Outback are also doing very well, as
a much cheaper alternative to German luxury cars.
Subaru has eleven dealerships in the country:
Greenhills, Fort
Bonifacio, Manila
Bay, Alabang,
Davao,
Cebu,
Cagayan
de Oro, Iloilo,
Santa
Rosa, Batangas,
and Pampanga.

Motor
Image Pilipinas, Inc., part of Motor Image Group,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong
Kong-based Tan Chong International Limited
under businessman Glenn Tan, the company markets
and distributes Subaru vehicles, parts and accessories
through a network of six dealerships in the Philippines.

Marketing
efforts

Some
of the advertising slogans Subaru has used in
the past include "Inexpensive, and built to stay
that way" (USA 1970s - early 1980s), "The World's
Favourite Four Wheel Drive" (in the UK), "Plus
on y pense, plus on a le gout de la conduire"
(Literally: "The more one thinks, the more one
has the taste (or desire, impulse, drive) of driving
it") in French Quebec,
"We built our reputation by building a better
car", "What to Drive", "The Beauty of All-Wheel
Drive", "Driven by What's Inside", "Think, Feel,
Drive", "Love. It's what makes Subaru, a Subaru"
(USA early 2010s) and currently "Confidence in
Motion" in North America, "All 4 The Driver" in
Australia, and "Uncommon Engineering, Uncommon
Stability, Uncommon Roadholding, Uncommon Sense"
in the UK and "Technology that gives you Confidence
in Motion" in Southeast Asia.

As
a result of this refocused advertising campaign,
Subaru products began to attract a following among
the young and educated, who saw the car as a practical
alternative to the SUV craze. Subaru has historically
been popular in the Northeastern United States
as well as the Pacific
Northwest. According to Automotive Lease Guide,
Subaru ranked second place in vehicles that have
the highest overall predicted resale values among
all industry and all luxury vehicles for MY 2009.
The awards are derived after carefully studying
segment competition, historical vehicle performance
and industry trends. According to a study done
by J.D.
Power and Associates for the 2008 Customer
Retention Study, Subaru ranked at 50.5%, which
was above the national average of 48%.

Hokago
no Pleiades (Original net animation)

Subaru
launched an animation series Hokago no Pleiades(?????????,Hokago no Pureadesu?,
lit. 'After School Pleiades') developed
jointly with Gainax.
The 4-part mini episode series was released on
YouTube
on February 1, 2011. It featured a magical
girl plot with Subaru as a leading protagonist.

Motorsports

Subaru
Rally Team Japan lead by Noriyuki Koseki (founder
of Subaru
Tecnica International, STI) ran Subaru
Leone coupé, sedan DL, RX(SRX)
and RX
Turbo in the World Rally Championship between
1980 and 1989. Drivers for individual rallies
included Ari
Vatanen, Per
Eklund, Shekhar
Mehta, Mike Kirkland, Possum
Bourne and Harald Demut. Mike Kirkland finished
6th overall and won the A Group at the 1986 Safari
Rally. That year Subaru was one of the only
manufacturers combining 4WD and turbo after Audi's
successful quattro
system had been introduced in 1980, but Audi withdrew
from the WRC after safety concerns and Ford's
serious accident early in the 1986 season. Subaru
changed the rally model to Legacy RS for the 1990–1992
period and took part in the first complete season
in the World Rally Championship with the same
model in 1993.

Subaru
was briefly involved in Formula
One circuit racing when it bought a controlling
interest in the tiny Italian Coloni
team for the 1990
season. The Coloni 3B's 12-cylinder engine
was badged as a Subaru and shared the boxer layout
with the company's own engines, but was an existing
design built by Italian firm Motori
Moderni. The cars were overweight and underpowered
and the partnership broke down before the season
finished.
With the rise of rally racing and the Import
scene in the US, the introduction of the highly
anticipated Subaru
Impreza WRX in 2001 was successful in bringing
high-performance AWD compact cars into the sports
car mainstream. Subaru supplies a factory-backed
team, Subaru
Rally Team USA for Rally
America and has won the driver's title six
times, most recently in 2011 with David
Higgins.
Grassroots
Motorsports awarded Subaru with the Editors'
Choice Award in 2002.[full
citation needed]

On
16 December 2008, it was announced that Subaru
would no longer be competing in the World Rally
Championships.
The decision was made by Subaru’s parent company,
Fuji
Heavy Industries (FHI), partly as a result
of the economic downturn but also because it was
felt Subaru had achieved its sporting and marketing
objectives. Mr Ikuo
Mori denied that alterations to the WRC technical
regulations in 2010 or a rumoured deterioration
in the working relationship with Prodrive
had any impact on the decision. He also said that
the possibility of a Subaru car back in the top
category of WRC in the future is not zero, but
for this moment there can be no assumption of
a comeback.

Starting
in 2006, Subaru of America (SOA), as the official
distributor of Subaru vehicles in the United States
participates in the Subaru
Road Racing Team (SRRT) with a Subaru
Legacy 2.5 GT Spec-B in the Grand-Am
Street Tuner class. In 2010, SRRT campaigns a
Subaru
Impreza WRX STI in the Grand Sport class.
In 2011, SRRT switched from the hatchback to a
2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI sedan.

The
Subaru engine was rated at 110 kW (150 PS;
148 hp) and 350 N·m (260 ft·lbf)
with a displacement of 2.0 litres. In March 2008
Subaru offered the Legacy sedan and wagon and
the Outback wagon with 2.0 litre turbodiesel in
the EU
with a 5-speed manual transmission.

In
September 2008 Subaru announced that the diesel
Forester and diesel Impreza will be introduced
at the 2008 Paris
Motor Show, with Forester sales to begin October
2008 and diesel Impreza sales to start January
2009.
The Forester and Impreza will have a 6-speed manual
transmission, whereas the Legacy and Outback have
5-speed manual transmissions.

Electric
vehicles

In
June 2006, Fuji Heavy Industries, Inc. (FHI) launched
its Subaru
StellaPlug-in
electric vehicle which is a kei
car equipped with a lithium-ion
battery pack. The vehicle has a short range of
56 miles (90 km) but it actually costs more
than the Mitsubishi
iMiEV, at ¥4,380,000
(US$44,860),
including Japanese Government consumption
taxes with an exemption of $2,240. It will
also qualify for a rebate from the Japanese Government
of up to $14,200, bringing the price down to $30,660.
The vehicle is much like the i-MiEV, with a 47-kilowatt
motor and a quick-charge capability, but the two-door
mini-car has a boxy shape. FHI plans to start
delivery in late July and plans to sell 170 vehicles
by March 2010.

In
Japan, Subaru is currently testing two electric
vehicles called the Subaru
G4e and the Subaru
R1e.

The
Subaru
Hybrid Tourer Concept is a four-seat vehicle
with gull-wing
doors that combines a 2-liter turbocharged
direct-injection gasoline engine with a continuously
variable transmission and two axle-mounted motors.
A lithium-ion battery pack provides energy storage
for the vehicle.

Electronics

Since
the 2005 model year, Subaru has adopted the CAN
bus technology for the USA and Canada markets.
Starting in the 2007 model year, all Subaru vehicles
use the CAN technology.[citation
needed] Typically, two CAN-buses
are used on vehicles: a high-speed CAN running
at 500 kbit/s for powertrain communication,
and a low-speed CAN running at 125 kbit/s
for body control functions and instrument panels.
A body-integrated unit (BIU) is used between these
two networks.

Clarion
and Harman
Kardon are among the audio, video, and navigation
technology suppliers for Subaru products in North
America.
Clarion announced in 2015 that it was introducing
its "Smart Access" platform, formerly only offered
on Clarion's aftermarket products, to the units
to be installed in certain Subaru 2015 models
in North America. Smart Access is able to work
with the driver's smartphone (either iPhone or
Android) and allows access to various car-safe
apps running on the phone via the car's built-in
infotainment screen.
Subaru and Clarion have also, with Liberty Mutual
Insurance, introduced the "RightTrack" in-vehicle
app which will be able to monitor the driver's
habits, make suggestions for safer driving, and
possibly offer insurance discounts.

Environmental
record

USA-spec
Subaru Legacy PZEV

Subaru
claims to have implemented advanced policies which
include recycling, reducing harmful emissions,
and educating their employees. Their efforts have
helped them in their environmental initiatives.
The Subaru plant in Lafayette, Indiana (SIA) was
the first auto assembly plant to achieve zero
landfill status;
nothing from the manufacturing process goes into
a landfill. The company has developed a recycling
plan for the "end-of-life" of their cars. Most
of their modern products use highly recyclable
materials throughout the vehicle, in the engine,
transmission, suspension and elsewhere in each
vehicle leaving Subaru with a 97.3% recycling
ratio rate for their end-of-life vehicles.

An
excerpt from the Subaru website stated "In 2006,
SIA was awarded the United States Environmental
Protection Agency´s Gold Achievement Award as
a top achiever in the agency's WasteWise program
to reduce waste and improve recycling." The website
also stated that "It also became the first U.S.
automotive assembly plant to be designated a wildlife
habitat."

Subaru
currently offers a Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle
(PZEV)
certified Legacy, Outback, Impreza,
XV/Crosstrek
and Forester models
which are available for sale anywhere in the U.S.
Subaru PZEV vehicles meet California's Super-Ultra-Low-Emission
Vehicle exhaust emission standard.
All other models have been certified LEV2.

ABOUT ALISO
VIEJO CALIFORNIA
Aliso Viejo is a city in Orange County, California,
United States. As of the 2000 census, Aliso Viejo
population was 40,166. Aliso Viejo became Orange County's
34th city on July 1, 2001, and has been the only city
in Orange County to incorporate since 2000. It borders
the cities of Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel,
and Laguna Woods. Aliso Viejo was originally part
of the 22,000 acre Moulton Ranch. The Moulton family
took title in the 1890's to land originally granted
to Juan Avila by the Mexican government in 1842. In
1976, Mission Viejo Company purchased the last 6,600
acres for a new planned community that is now part
of the City of Aliso Viejo. The first residential
units were offered in March of 1982 and the first
residents arrived in November of the same year. (previous
information from The City of Aliso Viejo) Aliso Viejo
became Orange County 's 34th city on July 1, 2001.
The first planned community in Orange County, it was
targeted to middle and upper-middle income homebuyers.
Aliso Viejo had only 7,600 residents in 1990. Developers
were building homes, condos and apartments so fast
that there were waiting lists and lotteries held for
singles and couples anxious to be a part of the community.
By 2000, the population expanded by 32,000 residents,
making it the top city in population growth in Orange
County. The zipcodes of Aliso Viejo are: 92653, 92656,
92698

ABOUT
IRVINE CALIFORNIA

Irvine
borders Tustin and is an incorporated city in Orange County,
California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed
by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Formally incorporated
on December 28, 1971, the 69.7 square mile (180.5 km²) city
has a population of 202,079 (as of 2007). It has annexed in
the past an undeveloped area to the north, and has also annexed
the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, most of which
is to be made into a park called the Orange County Great Park.
Currently, Irvine is larger in land area than any other city
in Orange County because of its annexation of the southern
and eastern unincorporated areas. In June 2007, it was named
The Safest City in the United States (Irvine has held the
title since 2005)

Irvine
is home to the University of California, Irvine (UCI), the
Orange County Center of University of Southern California,
and the Irvine Campus of Alliant International University,
Concordia University, California State University Fullerton,
Pepperdine University and Irvine Valley College.

HISTORY OF
IRVINEEvidence of early campsites and rock shelters
in the undeveloped parts of the city puts prehistoric man in the
Irvine area at least 12,000 years ago. Irvine was inhabited by the
Gabrielino Indians about 2,000 years ago. Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish
explorer, came to the area in 1769. This brought on the establishment
of forts, missions and herds of cattle. The King of Spain parceled
out land for missions and private use. After Mexico's independence
from Spain in 1821, the Mexican government secularized the missions
and assumed control of the lands. It began distributing the land
to Mexican citizens who applied for grants. Three large Spanish/Mexican
grants made up the land that later became the Irvine Ranch: Rancho
Santiago de Santa Ana, Rancho San Joaquin and Rancho Lomas de Santiago.
In 1864, Jose Sepulveda, owner of Rancho San Joaquin sold 50,000
acres (200 km²) to Benjamin and Thomas Flint, Llewellyn Bixby and
James Irvine for $18,000 to resolve debts due to the Great Drought.
In 1866, Irvine, Flint and Bixby acquired 47,000-acre (190 km²)
Rancho Lomas de Santiago for $7,000. After the Mexican-American
war the land of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana fell prey to tangled
titles. In 1868, the ranch was divided among four claimants as part
of a lawsuit: Flint, Bixby and Irvine. The ranches were devoted
to sheep grazing. However, in 1870, tenant farming was permitted.

In 1878, James Irvine acquired his partners' interests for $150,000.
His 110,000 acres (450 km²) stretched 23 miles (37 km) from the
Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana River. James Irvine died in 1886.
The ranch was inherited by his son, James Irvine, Jr. who incorporated
it into The Irvine Company. James, Jr. shifted the ranch operations
to field crops, olive and citrus crops. In 1888, the Santa Fe Railroad
extended its line to Fallbrook Junction (north of San Diego) and
named a station along the way after James Irvine. The town that
formed around this station was named Myford, after Irvine's son,
because a post office in Calaveras County already bore the family
name. The town was later renamed Irvine, however, in 1914.[1] By
1918, 60,000 acres (240 km²) of lima beans were grown on the Irvine
Ranch. Two Marine Corps facilities were built on the ranch during
World War II and sold to the government. James Irvine, Jr. died
in 1947 at the age of 80. His son, Myford, assumed the presidency
of The Irvine Company. He began opening small sections of the Irvine
Ranch to urban development. Myford died in 1959. The same year,
the University of California asked The Irvine Company for 1,000
acres (4 km²) for a new university campus. The Irvine Company gave
away the requested land and the State purchased an additional 500
acres (2 km²).William
Pereira, the University's consulting architect, and The Irvine Company
planners drew up master plans for a city of 50,000 people surrounding
the new university. The area would include industrial, residential
and recreational areas, commercial centers and greenbelts. The new
community was to be named Irvine; the old agricultural town of Irvine,
where the railroad station and post office were located, was renamed
East Irvine. The villages of Turtle Rock, University Park, Culverdale,
the Ranch and Walnut were completed by 1970. On December 28, 1971,
the residents of these communities voted to incorporate a substantially
larger city than the one envisioned by the Pereira plan. By January
1999, Irvine had a population of 134,000 and a total area of 43
square miles (111 km²).

ABOUT ORANGE COUNTY:

Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States.
Its county seat is Santa Ana. According to the 2000 Census, its
population was 2,846,289, making it the second most populous county
in the state of California, and the fifth most populous in the United
States. The state of California estimates its population as of 2007
to be 3,098,121 people, dropping its rank to third, behind San Diego
County. Thirty-four incorporated cities are located in Orange County;
the newest is Aliso Viejo.

Unlike many other large centers of population in the United States,
Orange County uses its county name as its source of identification
whereas other places in the country are identified by the large
city that is closest to them. This is because there is no defined
center to Orange County like there is in other areas which have
one distinct large city. Five Orange County cities have populations
exceeding 170,000 while no cities in the county have populations
surpassing 360,000. Seven of these cities are among the 200 largest
cities in the United States.

Orange County is also famous as a tourist destination, as the county
is home to such attractions as Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm,
as well as sandy beaches for swimming and surfing, yacht harbors
for sailing and pleasure boating, and extensive area devoted to
parks and open space for golf, tennis, hiking, kayaking, cycling,
skateboarding, and other outdoor recreation. It is at the center
of Southern California's Tech Coast, with Irvine being the primary
business hub.

The average price of a home in Orange County is $541,000. Orange
County is the home of a vast number of major industries and service
organizations. As an integral part of the second largest market
in America, this highly diversified region has become a Mecca for
talented individuals in virtually every field imaginable. Indeed
the colorful pageant of human history continues to unfold here;
for perhaps in no other place on earth is there an environment more
conducive to innovative thinking, creativity and growth than this
exciting, sun bathed valley stretching between the mountains and
the sea in Orange County.

Orange County was Created March 11 1889, from part of Los Angeles
County, and, according to tradition, so named because of the flourishing
orange culture. Orange, however, was and is a commonplace name in
the United States, used originally in honor of the Prince of Orange,
son-in-law of King George II of England.

About
Mission Viejo California:Located
in South Orange County, Mission Viejo is a planned community that
once had cattle grazing on its hillsides. The land was purchased
from the O’Neill family nearly half a century ago, and the
first homes were built in 1966. By the late 80’s, Mission
Viejo became a city, and now houses almost 100,000 residents. Locals
enjoy activities at the Mission Viejo Lake, shopping at The Shops
at Mission Viejo and the Kaleidoscope Courtyard, and their biggest
celebration of the year at the July 4th Street Fair. The community
is also proud of their world renowned Nadadores swim team and Saddleback
Community College, which offers some of the best courses in the
county. The zipcodes of Mission Viejo are: 92675, 92690, 92691,
92692, 92694

Mission Hospital
is the largest hospital in south Orange County and serves as the
area's regional trauma center. It also offers one of two Children's
Hospital of Orange County locations providing care for children.
Mission Viejo has numerous recreational areas such as the Norman
P. Murray Community and Senior Center[18] there are about two parks
per square mile. The city has three golf courses, The Mission Viejo
Country Club, Casta del Sol Golf Course, and the Arroyo Trabuco
Golf Club. At the center of the city is a man-made lake, Lake Mission
Viejo, a private association for Mission Viejo residents with custom
waterfront homes, condominiums, boat and paddle board rentals, fishing,
and swim beaches. Lake Mission Viejo also holds events such as music
concerts and movie screenings, usually complimentary for members
and typically during the summer season. The Shops at Mission Viejo
and the Kaleidescope Courtyards serve as the city's two main shopping,
dining and entertainment centers. Both cater to an upper middle
class customer demographic and feature family-oriented facilities
and services. Mission Viejo also hosts a number of athletic events
such as 5K runs and triathlons throughout the year. The city holds
a variety of annually recurring events to celebrate holidays including
a street fair and fireworks for Independence Day and public decorations
and interactive activities for children during the winter holiday
season featuring representation for multiple popular religions.

HISTORY
Mission Viejo was purchased by John Forster, a Mexican also known
as Don Juan. During the Mexican-American War, Forster provided fresh
horses to United States military forces which were used on the march
of San Diego to retake Los Angeles. Mission Viejo was a hilly region
primarily used as cattle and sheep grazing land, since it was of
little use to farmers. This city was one of the last regions of
Orange County to be urbanized due to its geologic complexity. In
1960, early developers dismissed most of the land in Mission Viejo
as simply "undevelopable".[8] Donald Bren, an urban planner who
later became the president of the Irvine Company, drafted a master
plan which placed roads in the valleys and houses on the hills,
and contoured to the geography of the area.[8] The plan worked,
and by 1980 much of the city of Mission Viejo was completed. During
the late 1970s and the 1980s, houses in Mission Viejo were in such
high demand that housing tracts often sold out before construction
even began on them.[9] The houses and shopping centers in the city
are almost uniformly designed in a Spanish mission style, with "adobe"-like
stucco walls and barrel-tile roofs. Many point to Mission Viejo
as the first and largest manifestation of Bren's obsession with
Spanish architecture. Bren's company was also the creator of the
developments in Irvine, and Newport Beach. The company expanded
its operations and went on to build the Lakes project in Tempe,
Arizona, Mission Viejo Aurora in Colorado and was the initial master
planner of Highlands Ranch, both in the Denver Metropolitan area.
The seal of the city of Mission Viejo was designed and drawn by
Carl Glassford, an artist and former resident of the city.

Sports
Mission Viejo has a major youth athletic facility, Mission Viejo
Youth Athletic Park. The park consists of eight baseball fields
and five soccer fields. It is host to Little League District 68,
AYSO Region 84, and four competitive soccer clubs: Pateadores Soccer
Club, Mission Viejo Soccer Club, West Coast Futbol Club, and Saddleback
United Soccer Club. The Mission Viejo Nadadores Swimming and Mission
Viejo Nadadores Diving Team won a string of national championships
and produced a number of Olympians and world record holders in the
1970s and 1980s. Olympians included Shirley Babashoff, Brian Goodell,
Larson Jenson, Maryanne Graham, Nicole Kramer, Casy Converse, Marcia
Morey, Dara Torres, and Greg Louganis. Mission Viejo hosted the
Road Cycling Events during the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los
Angeles. The old O'Neill Road was renamed Olympiad Rd. in honor
of the Olympic events in 1984. There is also a soccer facility,
now used by the town's youth soccer program, that was used as a
training field by the United States men's national soccer team before
and during the 1994 FIFA World Cup, hosted by the United States.
Mission Viejo is the largest AYSO Region in the country. The Saddleback
College ballpark hosted the Mission Viejo Vigilantes minor league
baseball team of the Western Baseball League from 1996–2001. Now
the ballpark has a semi-pro collegiate team, the Orange County Fire.
Mission Viejo is also the hometown of NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez,
Minnesota Twins pitcher Phil Hughes, and Chicago White Sox first
baseman Adam LaRoche, former Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Don August,
Boston Red Sox outfielder Allen Craig, Top Shot Season 4 Champion
Chris Cheng, and PBA Tour Champion Scott Norton.

Mission
Viejo neighbors the city of Lake Forest: Lake Forest is a planned
community that was once a stagecoach stop between Los Angeles and
San Diego. The community then called “El Toro” was in
fact formed after WWII with the help of the El Toro Marine Base.
Lake Forest became a city in the early 1990’s, and now prides
itself on having the first of Orange County’s historical parks
by establishing Heritage Hill; the park was created to preserve
Lake Forest’s vibrant history. Lake Forest also has a new
planned neighborhood, Foothill Ranch offers both wilderness and
community. Foothill Ranch is home to The Whiting Ranch Wilderness
Park, which consists of trails, rock formations, and streams as
well as a rest stop and exhibits. This community is close to shopping,
dining and entertainment in South Orange County. Within Lake Forest
are the communities of Portola Hills, El Toro and Foothill Ranch.
Lake Forest borders Aliso Viejo, Irvine, Mission Viejo, Laguna Hills,
Laguna Woods, Laguna Beach and Rancho Santa Margarita. Lake Forest
offers fantastic mountain views and quiet living for singles, couples
and families in Orange County. Residents enjoy swimming, tennis,
basketball, and volleyball at the brand new Concourse Park. The
community is just minutes from various shopping centers and marketplaces.
The zipcodes of Lake Forest are: 92609, 92630, 92610, 92679.And
Mission Viejo neighbors the city of Rancho Santa Margarita:
Before it was owned by the O’Neill family, Rancho Santa Margarita
was home to Shoshonean Native Americans. RSM is one of the many
planned communities in Orange County and is also one of the newest,
having become a city in 2000. The community known as “A Small
City with the Soul of a Small Village” is the perfect place
for families and today nearly 50,000 people call it home. Community
activities such as the Fourth of July Celebration and the Summer
Concert Series are favorites among residents. Dove Canyon is a gated
community in Rancho Santa Margarita. Within
Rancho Santa Margarita are the communities of Dove Canyon and Coto
De Cazathat border the Cleveland
National Forest and is best known for its choice golf courses. Rancho
Santa Margarita borders Ladera Ranch, San Juan Capistrano, Mission
Viejo, San Clemente, Talega, Trabucco Canyon and Laguna Niguel.
Residents enjoy the outdoors at the Thomas F. Riley Wilderness Park
and the Wagon Wheel Park Bike Trails, as well as a variety
of community and family events such as the Boo Bash and Holiday
in the Park. The zipcodes of Rancho Santa Margarita are: 92688,
92679.